Notes

! RELIGION: Lutheran.
! NOTES: Came to the U.S.A. from Norway. Graduated from Concordia College,
Moorhead, Minn. and taught there for a while. He was a banker in Halstad,
Minn. for 25 years. He changed his name when he came from to America;
probably from Heskestad to Benson. He was from the Stavanger area in
Norway.

!0SO: A-020-R gives Malena's name and that of her husband (as Karl Hvambaal) and 3 of her children. It states that Karl was 72 in 1928 which would make
his b. date about 1856. He was described by Salina in 1928 as a young looking old man. A-075 is data used.

!0SO: A-020-R gives Malena's name and that of her husband (as Karl Hvambaal) and 3 of her children. It states that Karl was 72 in 1928 which would make
his b. date about 1856. He was described by Salina in 1928 as a young looking old man. A-075 is data used.

!BAPTISM: Baptized and confirmed in Finland.
!BURIAL: Oneota Cemetery.
!RELIGION: Lutheran.
!NOTES: Maria was first married to Nestor Jacob Mackey but was widowed at
approximately the age of 29 or 30 with 6 children in a new country.
She supported them by taking in roomers and boarders until she married
Jacob Wiita and they bought virgin land in 1913 and built a
farm on Glen Route in Aitkin County, Minnesota.